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Time to initial consultation increased during Cardiac EASE (Ensuring Access and Speedy Evaluation) but remained shorter than in the conventional track. Despite the increase in wait times within EASE in 2006, wait times remained substantially shorter than in patients seen through the conventional mechanism. Data for wait times in the conventional pathway were not available for 2004 because of a change in the office medical record billing system during that year
